Tom Allen was fired. But he wasn’t fired for the reasons you might expect, not even the day the college football playoff committee baffled Indiana, yes, I said he didn’t include the Hoosiers in a six-year bowling game. .
Again and again on Sunday night, we asked him to share his feelings about the fate of his team’s bowl (an appearance in the Outback Bowl against a Mississippi 4-5 team that didn’t get any votes in the Top 25). of the AP) and again and again, he grabbed his lips and said, “It’s not the time or the place.”
Instead, he did what good leaders do, demonstrated why he was the coach of the Big Ten of the year: swallowed his anger, frustration, and disappointment, and spent most of a half an hour extolling the Mississippi virtues, the Outback Bowl and the opportunity for UI to win their first bowling game since the 1991 Copper Bowl over Baylor.
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